Damn, it looks like I missed a whole lot.

[ThomCat]

I've been gone for a week. I'm back. :grouphug: I hope you are all doing really well.

What's the important stuff I missed?

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. The Crocodile Hunter Died - that was the real biggy for the

week.

[crim son]

2. CaliforniaPeggy is having her surgery today.

HypnoToad reached 45,000 posts. Hmmm, what else?

How are you? Did you have a great time with your friends?

[ThomCat]

14. Wow.

I saw the post about Peggies surgerie. Fingers crossed.

45k... Wow! I can't even imagine.

I'm doing great. I had a great time. Now I'm in the office and they're getting on my nerves with one crisis after another.

[WolverineDG]

31. Here's how you can strike back

(actually this happened to me & I was none to happy at the time, but hey, they're getting on your nerves so...)

When they tell you they're having trouble accessing the internet, tell 'em you'll send 'em an email about it. :evilgrin:

dg

[ThomCat]

37. That is SO mean.

:)

Unfortunately, my problems relate to $300k in invoices that I can't get paid because two VPs are fighting over which budgets they come out of. I have vendors getting ready to put credit holds on us, and we need to be able to place more orders with them.

I'm not allowed to smack VPs upside the head. x(

[WolverineDG]

45. Why, there ought to be some company policy

allowing you to do that, especially when hefty chunks of change are involved.

Fortunately for me, there is no such restriction & I can :spank: your VPs to my heart's content. :spank: :spank::spank::spank::spank:v:spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank:

and a :hug: for you!

dg

[billyskank]

3. Three popular people got banned

although all three were not popular with all the same people. That was the problem.

[wildhorses]

5. how did I miss out on all that?

I did not even know that stuff was going down until they hijacked my thread:hi:

[billyskank]

6. I was very sorry for you to see it happen in your thread

:hug:

[wildhorses]

7. of all the threads...I loved that thread...

you know some threads have potential for greatness and I thought that one was destined for fame:shrug:

[billyskank]

8. Instead it was destined for infamy

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me

[wildhorses]

10. everytime I see your sigline I think of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJA8d0O1k4

[billyskank]

11. I'll watch it when I get home from work, babe

:*

[wildhorses]

12. okey dokey...enjoy

;)

[Haole Girl]

17. Don't feel badly

I didn't either...until, of course, the love thread gone awry. By the way, that was not your fault. :hug:

[Fox Mulder]

4. Nothing much.

Just the usual.

Welcome back. :hi:

[ThomCat]

15. Thank you!

:hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Welcome back!

Everything big you missed has already been covered so I'm just going to add this...

:hug:

[ThomCat]

16. I could use that today.

:hug:

They're grinding on my last nerve here today in the office. I was back 5 minutes and I had 4 people yelling about emergencies that absolutely needed my full undivided attention. x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. That sucks.

I used to have a boss that would routinely mess things up with customer requests then three days later be like, "um...yeah, I promised this person I would order this, but I forgot. I had originally told them it would be here today, but I had to tell them you forgot to order it, so order it now, then call them up and tell them when it will be in with an apology."

I always just wanted to scream, "you're the owner. Your job is apparently to be a dick and look at porn on my computer when I'm not around, then try to throw out my stuffed sheep. We have a freaking special order system for a reason. That reason being so that I can look at the list and know my special orders. You're not a buyer, stop pretending to be one and then forgetting that you pretended to be one."

My current rant though is that according to someone in GD, I'm a bad liberal because I go boating. :wtf:

[ThomCat]

21. Um, what does boating have to do with being a liberal?

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. Duh, the boat gets towed by an SUV (almost never though)

and the boats use gas. It doesn't matter if I enjoy it, a good liberal would get rid of their boats for the sake of saving gas or something. Of course, this still ignores the fact that there would just be someone else using the boats if sold.

Honestly, if I'm going to have a hobby that requires the use of fossil fuels, I should just vote Republican. Man, imagine if I also posted that I have an ATV.

[ThomCat]

25. While I do agree

that recreational vehicles are conspicuous, unnecessary consumption I would never attack someone for it. People who insist on living in suburban sprawl waste more on any given day. Those of us who live in cities produce mass amounts of environmental waste that gets shipped to other places. Very few people are clean enough to point fingers.

If we start demanding some level of purity to be a liberal then there are maybe 1000 liberals left in the US. Damn.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. Yeah, I hate SUVs too.

I drive a Jeep only because it was a corporate car that my stepdad gave me after my mercury sable decided to die for the billionth time. And in terms of having Jeeps in the family, my stepdad's cabin is down a few miles of windy dirt road and he does tow a boat with it. So those are fairly understandable reasons to have a Jeep. Soccer mom with the hummer that drives back and forth to the supermarket and crap. Not so much.

But yeah, I find demanding a bizarre level of purity to be a liberal absurd and it certainly doesn't earn us any votes.

[LostinVA]

13. I missed my Purrkins!

[ThomCat]

18. Purrrrrrrr!

I'll try to make up for my absense. :7

[LostinVA]

19. Here's some catnip....

I missed you during the 2006 Steve Irwin Flamfest.

[ThomCat]

23. What possible reason for anyone have for flaming him?

:shrug:

I never watched any of his shows, but I never had gripe with him. He kept wild animals and undeveloped areas in the public eye, which helped animal rights and conservation causes.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Apparently, people have lots of absurd reasons for hating him.

Steve Irwin took over GD like a fighting pit bull on an old lady.

[ThomCat]

26. I'm glad I missed that.

If there is an afterlife then I hope it's a peaceful one for him.

[Haole Girl]

27. You have no idea

Just be thankful you weren't here the last 48 hours.

Enough hatred spewing over Steve Irwin to fill-up hell, three-times-over. OK, slight exaggeration...but not by much.

[ThomCat]

30. I know far too little about him to have an opinion

Other than the default one, that you should leave the dead alone.

Because of the fair warnings here, I'm definitely not going to go back and read those threads.

[LostinVA]

29. Read some of the threads if you get bored...

Some of the worst stuff was deleted... scary....

[LSK]

32. Agassi retired

[ThomCat]

35. Cool.

I'm sure he would prefer to compete for a few more years, but any career that allows you to retire young is a good career.

I hope he hasn't worn out any of him joints. Tennis is a tough sport.

[Mutley]

33. I've missed a lot, too.

So, I dunno.

But, how ya doing?

:hug:

[ThomCat]

34. If I can make it through the day

I'll be doing very well. The weather is good, I'm feeling well, and I'll be going home to my own apartment and my own bed. :)

Is your day going as well? :hug:

[Mutley]

36. My day is just fine so far.

Tomorrow'll be busy, though. Gotta go to school in the morning, and work at night. x(

:P

[ThomCat]

39. I hope the classes are a lot of fun.

:hug:

It would probably be futile to hope that work be fun too. :P

[Mutley]

41. Thanks.

:hug:

No, work will not be so fun. But that's okay, it's income. :D

[LisaM]

38. Katie Couric showed a picture of Tom Cruise's freaky baby

It's got about ten inches of thick black hair.

[ThomCat]

40. I'm surprised anybody tuned in to watch.

Couric wouldn't know Journalism if it bit her. And does anyone really care about Cruise and Holme's baby?

You would think there was nothing else happening in the world. :P

[LisaM]

42. I didn't tune in - they showed it later on our local news

it caught me off guard.

[ThomCat]

46. Don't you hate it when they ambush you with garbage

like that? x(

It would be nice if there was actual news on the news shows. :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. The weirdest thing was the story last night on Fox5 (NYC) about the poop

sculpture. They showed it on a pedestal, but apparently bronzed baby poop can't be shown on tv, so it was blurred out. A segment devoted to people standing around and talking about a bronzed blur.

[ThomCat]

47. What kind of sick person thinks a baby's first solid poop

is that important? That's just sick. :puke:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

49. Yeah, then again what kind of sick person thinks it's newsworthy

yet too scandalous to show, so they subject the viewers to staring a blur that is theoretically bronzed poop?

[Critters2]

44. They fired Malloy!!

That is all.

[ThomCat]

48. I saw all of that last week.

It was pandemonium here. It was chaos. The world was coming to an end!

I think they're nuts for getting rid of him, but corporations make stupid decisions every day. I hope he gets a better show somewhere else very soon.